Orpheus Britannicus is a collection of songs by Henry Purcell, published posthumously in London in two volumes, the first in 1698 and the second in 1702...
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extensively copied, but only one song was printed by Purcell's widow in Orpheus Britannicus, and the complete work remained in manuscript until 1840 when it...
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revival of the work in 1692. The aria was published posthumously in Orpheus Britannicus, book 2, 1702. The voice is accompanied by an instrumental part featuring...
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and published Thomas d'Urfey's Wit and Mirth and Henry Purcell's Orpheus Britannicus. Among his most significant published song collections are Harmonia...
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lo", in two versions, the one for baritone (Z 604a) appearing in Orpheus Britannicus. For a revival in 1695 he recast the speech as a recitative for treble...
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Engraved portrait of Purcell by R. White after Closterman, from Orpheus Britannicus...
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first of the arias to be published separately was "Ah, Belinda" in Orpheus Britannicus. The most famous aria of the work is "When I am laid in earth", popularly...
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composition. One of the numbers, Strike the Viol, was published in Orpheus Britannicus. The rest of the work remained unpublished. "The earliest surviving...
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English Baroque Soloists, dir. John Eliot Gardiner 1992 : Songs from Orpheus Britannicus, Henry Purcell, interpreted by Agnès Mellon, Christophe Rousset and...
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de clavecin avec violon, 1997 - Verany Henry Purcell, Songs from Orpheus Britannicus/A. Mellon, W. Kuijken, 1993 - Astrée Jean-Philippe Rameau, Ouvertures...
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